The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 76

Amongst the many dreams which floated through my brain was a cheering one of a young man who was to come and release me, and to-day, when I opened my eyes, I recognised you and saw that my dream was fulfilled.

Who acts: many dreams, brain, young man, I, my · What happens: float, cheer, be, come, release, open · To what, where: me, eyes, you, dream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many dreams, brain, young man, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amongst	amongst	ADP	_	4 dreams	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dreams	det
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dreams	amod
4	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 floated	nsubj
6	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dreams	acl:relcl
7	through	through	ADP	_	17 man	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brain	nmod:poss
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 man	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
12	cheering	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 man	nsubj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 man	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floated	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 come	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 man	acl:relcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 release	cc
23	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 release	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 opened	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 opened	cc
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 day	case
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 to	punct
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 opened	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 day	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 opened	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 opened	nsubj
33	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 floated	conj
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eyes	nmod:poss
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 opened	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 recognised	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 recognised	nsubj
38	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 floated	parataxis
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 recognised	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 saw	cc
41	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 recognised	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 fulfilled	mark
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 dream	nmod:poss
44	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 fulfilled	aux:pass
46	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 saw	ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dreams	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	float	past	the many dreams				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cheer	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	my brain			through a young man	tree rules
4	come	past	a young man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	release	infinitive	a young man not said here	me			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source
6	open	past	I	my eyes	day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
7	recognise	past	I	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
8	see	past	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	fulfil	past · passive		my dream			tree rules
10	dream		my				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/76/